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Hope is often a very abstract, nebulous concept to us. The Scriptures, however, go much further than that. They provide concrete images of hope. This sermon examines one of those images and explores why Scripture works like this. Finally, it points to Jesus as the confidence for a hope that is always heaping up to more hope.
There is a whole lot more ambiguity in life than we often like to admit to ourselves. This can be especially hard for Christians who want to live lives of light for the Lord. When you live in Persia though… sometimes there are you in the mud of it all. This is a sermon that seeks to show a biblical and Christ-centered path forward in situations that seem painfully ambiguous.
We begin our journey into the book of Esther. We look at this Persian King. We get a look at the marginalization of Christians. We think about ways in which we might be tempted to enter the world of Xerxes badly and one true way we might be able to enter seeing Jesus as The True King.